Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly read more

If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be read more

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that read more

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere read more

A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay.